Rate Professor David Garrow

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., Duke University, 1981.

Research Interests: U.S. Supreme Court history, Civil Rights Movement, modern American political history.

Appointments: Professor of Law and History, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (2011–present); Senior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge (past).

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1987) for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Publications:

• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (William Morrow, 1986).
• Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (University of California Press, 1994).
• Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (William Morrow, 2017).

Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to national publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.